Venezuela

NOVANEWS Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem, Sr Reactionary forces have full support of US government and imperialist media By Gloria La Riva Venezuela’s Minister of Communication and Information, Delcy Rodríguez speaks Feb. 16 to denounce the international media’s publication of several images falsely attributed to Venezuela. Here she shows a famous photograph of a protest in Egypt falsely identified as Venezuelan police repression. A coordinated operation of Venezuelan right-wing forces, the U.S. government and imperialist media is underway against the revolutionary government of President Nicolás Maduro and the masses who back the country’s move toward socialism. On February 12, people marching in “Youth Day” actions—to celebrate the 200th anniversary of a key independence battle—were atta...

NOVANEWS   Or did a complicit media spread disinformation at Washington’s behest? by Justin Raimondo The media is our window on the world – but what if that window is dirtied andblurred? How can we really know what’s happening in, say, Venezuela, where an increasingly authoritarian government with Marxist inclinations is up against a rebellion by middle-and-working class folks – and the US government is further muddying the picture by rather openly aiding and directing the opposition? It used to be that we couldn’t know the reality on the ground without a great deal of research combined with actually going there. These days, however, technology has conquered distance and displaced the gumshoe approach and the library stacks at least insofar as grasping events in their immediacy. We h...

NOVANEWS CHANEZ The opposition in Venezuela says their protests are about crime and inflation, but they haven’t come forward with any concrete proposals as to how to deal with these problems, Gregory Wilpert, founder and editor of Venezuela Analysis.com, told RT. Wilpert says that the majority of the population are actually against the protests, because they completely disrupt their daily lives. RT: President Maduro has called for a peace conference in an attempt to meet with the opposition and resolve the current protests. Why are members of the opposition refusing to sit down with the government? Gregory Wilpert: Well, that’s a good question. I think the reason that they are refusing is because they don’t really seem to have very clear demands and they are very internally divided right...

NOVANEWS By Netfa Freeman Global Research The U.S. thinks it has found a formula for regime change, beginning with destabilization from within. Venezuela’s democratically elected government has long been a target. “Over the last decade or so we have seen this strategy attempted in Zimbabwe, Libya, Iran, and Syria. The political plan for Venezuela took stage in the streets of Washington DC February 15, 2014. Passers-by on Georgetown’s 30th Street on a freezing Saturday were perplexed at the standoff between two groups assuming opposite sides of the street. One ethnically mixed group of mostly Latino, Black, and White had taken the side of the street in front of the Venezuelan Embassy to show solidarity with Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution. The group on the other side was the all...

NOVANEWS By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya Global Research The US-supported opposition in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is taking its cue from the anti-government protests taking place across the Atlantic Ocean in Ukraine. Failing to win any of Venezuela’s elections by earning a popular mandate from the majority of the population in the last few years, the leaders of the mainstream opposition are now resorting to colour revolution tactics and a Ukraine-style disruption strategy. The aim of these opposition leaders in Venezuela is to manipulate the galvanized anti-government protesters into creating a political crisis in Caracas. Mainstream opposition leaders are doing this by instigating the protesters into taking steps that are geared at toppling the Venezuelan government. The s...

NOVANEWS Venenzuelan President Nicolas Maduro (AFP Photo / Presidencia) Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has accused President Obama of promoting ongoing protests in the country, and of backing members of the opposition alleged to be behind violence. In a communique, the Latin American leader demanded that the US explain its motives in “financing, promoting and defending members of the opposition that promote violence against our country.” Maduro went on to denounce declarations made by President Obama regarding the situation in Venezuela, saying that they presented a “gross interference in internal affairs.” The new accusations come amidst a spike in the unrest that has gripped Venezuela, with some six people killed since demonstrations mounted by the opposition turned violent las...

NOVANEWS The analysis of U.S. policy toward the Ukraine and Syria is even more applicable in the case of Venezuela, argues academic and author Steve Ellner. Since the 1990s, many critics of the U.S. have accused Washington of promoting the dismemberment of nations such as Yugoslavia, in accordance with neoliberalism’s drive to weaken central governments and nation states. Today, Washington’s official policy in nations like Syria and now the Ukraine has been support for rebels that are trying to overthrow the government, even though their chances of success are minimal. In the case of Syria, the U.S. has provided material support for rebels, while in the case of the Ukraine the Obama administration has threatened the government with sanctions even though the dissidents are armed and ...

NOVANEWS Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem, Sr Caracas is seeing an uprising of the middle classes and the rich. The working class neighbourhoods remain loyal to the government, but also deeply cynical about the extraordinary corruption of the heirs of Chavez. Mike Gonzalez analyses this contradictory situation: For over a week now, the world’s press and media have carried images of a Venezuela in flames. Burning buses, angry demonstrations, public buildings under siege. But the pictures are rarely explained or placed in any kind of context and people are left to assume that this one more urban riot, one more youth rebellion against the crisis, like those in Greece and Spain. The reality is both very different and far more complex. Venezuela, after all, is a society that declared war on neolibera...

NOVANEWS Un cuento de dos manifestaciones: informe en vivo En frente de la Embajada de Venezuela - Washington, DC, 15 de febrero 2014 Ayer (sábado, 15 de febrero) en una manifestación en Washington, DC, el carácter racista, privilegiado y mimado de los opositores al gobierno revolucionario de Venezuela se reveló de manera grotesca. Con mucha vividez desenmascararon la verdadera naturaleza de clase de la oposición al gobierno progresista de Venezuela, los niños enfurecidos de la clase alta de Venezuela, que viven una existencia mimada en Washington  DC,  gritaron insultos y difamaciones racistas contra un grupo multirracial de manifestantes que se reunieron durante seis horas para condenar al gobierno de EE.UU. y la CIA por tratar de llevar a cabo otro golpe de estado contra el ...